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Anyone hoping to read the Ottawa Public Library's most popular e-books of the year may find themselves waiting until well after the holidays, and librarians say major publishers are to blame.

It has been tempting to view the C.I.A. as omniscient. Yet Coll’s chastening new book about the events leading up to the Iraq War, in 2003, shows just how often the agency was flying blind.